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In my dissertation, I got some diagrams that don't fit a single (horizontal) A4 page. Hence I decided to print them on A3 pages that might be unfolded when reading. I followed the instructions in several posts, including this one:

Insert foldable A3 pages in an A4 document with active references

My first attempt looks like this: 

\newpage
\begingroup
\pdfpagewidth=2\pdfpagewidth
\noindent%\makebox[0pt][l]{%
\begin{figure}
%graphics go here
\caption{foo}
\end{figure}
\newpage
\endgroup

When replacing the figure with plain text, I indeed get a A3 landscape page within my document. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work for the figure-environment, since neither the graphics, nor the caption are displayed.

Please note that I want to reference the figures, hence pdfpages might not be an option.

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    In general you can't put a figure, which is a float, into a box, e.g. \makebox[0pt][l]{..}. Instead apply the box command to the content if figure. Also, in this case you should use \clearpage not \newpage to create a new page but clear all pending floats (figures and tables) first. This way you insure that your figure is placed before the group ends. – Martin Scharrer Jan 19 '13 at 08:01
  • The hugepage environment in the answer to the above linked question didn't work for you? – Martin Scharrer Jan 19 '13 at 08:03
  • See also (not a duplicate): How to include a picture over two pages, left part on left side, right on right (for books)? – gerrit Jan 19 '13 at 11:49
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    AFAIR is the geometry package able to create different geometries within one document. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Jan 19 '13 at 14:01
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    @UweZiegenhagen: Yes, but it doesn't allow you to change the paper size mid-document – Martin Scharrer Jan 19 '13 at 14:16
  • Thanks for your replies! @MartinScharrer: I don't get how your first comment is related to the question. And: I didn't get the hugepage-environment to work, most probably because I didn't know where to insert the "\pdfpagewidth=2\pdfpagewidth" command. – Chris Jan 21 '13 at 06:53
  • @gerrit: thanks for the hint, but that's not an alternative for me. I need to print large diagrams which have higher requirements to readability than e.g. a painting, etc. – Chris Jan 21 '13 at 06:55
  • @Chris: My first comment was a general one, as stated, and is related to the \makebox[0pt][l] in your code which got commented out. So apparently you tried placing a figure into a \makebox, so I thought to point out that this doesn't work at all. – Martin Scharrer Jan 21 '13 at 07:04
  • Answers https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/109495/6865 your question? – Stephen Oct 17 '15 at 11:13

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